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Decisions concerning the uses of scientific discoveries are typically based on
criteria
that have nothing in common with science.
Of course, technological choices entail more than economic
criteria.
Other reforms concern the patents themselves, and include shortening patent terms, introducing use-it-or lose-it provisions, and instituting stricter
criteria
that limit patents to truly meaningful inventions.
Greece will most likely not meet the
criteria
to receive further financial assistance from its eurozone partners and the International Monetary Fund.
Should this continue, perhaps bringing a de facto end to the Maastricht
criteria
and rising national protectionism in the form of industrial subsidies, the euro will be seriously jeopardized.
In most US states, the
criteria
for obtaining one are to be at least 18 years of age (three years lower than the drinking age) and have no criminal record or obvious manifestation of mental illness.
On these criteria, Deauville, in French Normandy, with the (slightly faded) elegance of a past era of elite luxury, ostentatious consumption, and sumptuous banquets, is also perhaps not an altogether fortunate choice for the G-8 meeting.
Returning to national governments rule-making powers that could be used to impose
criteria
aimed at excluding others would endanger the entire market.
But the state has other means to encourage equality on the basis of national, social, or economic
criteria.
Our
criteria
belong to the past.
It was French President Nicolas Sarkozy who, in the run-up to the last EU summit, called a halt to Merkel’s attempt to introduce an automatic response to member states that violate the stability
criteria.
Indeed, the projects financed by these bonds were required to meet stringent criteria, including a prior analysis of their carbon footprint, proof of a clear and significant impact on climate change, and a design that is aligned with the broader strategies being pursued by local actors and countries.
Entry into the euro as soon as possible is the best strategy for the accession countries, because it will mobilize them to complete structural reforms in order to meet the Maastricht
criteria
for inflation, interest rates, fiscal deficits, and public debt.
In hindsight, benchmarks of the candidates' ability to manage these risks should have supplemented the existing Maastricht
criteria
for adopting the euro.
But there must be no softening of the
criteria
for joining the euro.
These characteristics point to a major change in African consumption habits as this cohort ages, its incomes increase, and its behaviors and decision
criteria
become the societal norm.
The three criteria, he reminds us, are that a currency acts as a unit of account, a common means of payment, and a store of value.
Of course, no such intervention will, or should, be approved in practice unless it is seen as satisfying several moral or prudential criteria, which, though not yet adopted by the UN as formal benchmarks, have been the subject of much international debate and acceptance over the last decade.
Those
criteria
are that the atrocities occurring or feared are sufficiently serious to justify, prima facie, a military response; that the response has a primarily humanitarian motive; that no lesser response is likely to be effective in halting or averting the harm; that the proposed response is proportional to the threat; and that the intervention will actually be effective, doing more good than harm.
These criteria, particularly the last, will always be difficult to satisfy.
And, though researchers may not have found results supporting any one theory, they have advanced the cause of science by better defining the observational
criteria
any quantum theory of gravity will have to take into account.
Symptoms otherwise meeting the DSM
criteria
are not considered disorders if they arise after the death of an intimate, do not last more than two months, and do not include certain particularly severe symptoms.
In order to abolish this unwarranted psychoanalytic assumption, the researchers abandoned the attempt to distinguish natural from disordered conditions by context or etiology and assumed that all conditions that met the symptom-based
criteria
were disordered.
Parents whose child is seriously ill, spouses who discover their partners’ extramarital affairs, or workers unexpectedly fired from valued jobs are defined as suffering mental disorders if they develop enough symptoms to meet the DSM
criteria.
The diagnostic
criteria
could simply extend the current bereavement exclusion to cover conditions that develop after other losses and that are not especially severe or enduring.
Instead, the EU emphasized the technical
criteria
of membership.
Fewer and fewer companies will meet basic risk
criteria.
It is worth remembering that, in order to join the EU, Hungary had to meet stringent accession criteria, including credible democratic institutions and adherence to the rule of law.
But, when examined against the right criteria, cases that initially look alike are often very different.
With the Syrian government – through its murder of tens of thousands of civilians with barrel bombs and poison gas – having more than fulfilled the
criteria
for triggering the international community’s obligation to intervene, Brazil could suggest what an intervention that reflected the principle of “responsibility while protecting” might look like.
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